No, ” moaned Tom in despair. “School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer’s even over! Ruin half the vacation!

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter hiw much it cost him.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

My heart is bursting at the thought of Al-Mahdi coming to set up a universal government of peace.

I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.

I have always loved performing.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.